Thinking Quotes

What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.

Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you.

I think if I weren't married to [Barack Obama], I'd want him to be in there.

No, I think that if he had known he would be president, he would have started dying his hair, like, 10 years ago. Now it's too late.

I think employers need help in understanding how to translate a military career.

People have notions of what a wife's role should be in this process, and it's been a traditional one of blind adoration. My model is a little different - I think most real marriages are.

The one thing I believe is that families are off-limits. And I think my husband said it, and he was clear on that. And I totally agree with him.

I think any family would, any mother would their children.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

A lot of young people think they're invincible, but the truth is young people are knuckleheads... Now young people can get insurance for as little as $50 a month, less than the cost of gym shoes.

If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.

Actually, I think that turning 29 was more difficult, because once I turned 29, I anticipated 30 for the whole year, so by the time 30 came around it really wasn't that bad.

You've got each other's back. I think if everyone shows up with that attitude, then everybody has a great time, and I think the work is better as well.

I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.

I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.

Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.

When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing everything it can be, and anticipate that.

De Niro is a classic example of somebody who is iconic and who sort of effortlessly puts actors at ease the moment you meet him. I think it's also just something that he innately does with people.

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

Everyone thinks young people are alienated from the system. But when you present them with a viable alternative, they will be the first to take it. And then watch out.

I'm keenly aware of how important it is to set a good example. You may not think that your kids are paying attention to you, especially with something like money, but they probably are.

Policy changes like what you desire come from our politicians. So let them know what you think.

I think you can save and spend to live for however long you live. You just have to be flexible if things don't go as plan.

I've always liked New York even before I lived in New York. It represents something, I think, and it would be trite to say what it represents really because it's been said so many times.

I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.

I don't mind when I hit a ball in the woods. I think of it as an adventure. That's when golf really starts to get interesting.

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody.

I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.

I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and you can start doing things like you would do.

Today's clunky smart glasses will be replaced by smart contact lenses. We'll command them by voice, blinking, or even thinking, to interact visually in 3-D with the Internet.

We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.

Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.

I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

The down side these days is thinking that, “I can do this all on my own”. Yes, you can do this on your own but you’ll be a much happier human being if you do it with other human beings.

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.

I think the whole concept of dating is deeply flawed, so maybe it's a good thing to be undateable. There's a difference between being unlovable and undateable.

I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war thats based on religion.